From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Aug 4 20:10:27 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F8C17B8C for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:10:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BE517B88 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:10:23 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id C028F17B97; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:09:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA21D17A64 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:54:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from sws1.ctd.ornl.gov (sws1.ctd.ornl.gov [160.91.20.101]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 3622B17B4A for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:54:04 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 16284 invoked by uid 12); 3 Aug 2001 13:54:02 -0000 To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: Anthony V Palumbo Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: Travel Awards 9th International Conference on Microbial Genomes Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <3B6AACD6.B361E3EB@ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:09:46 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk The organizing committee would like to announce the 9th International Conference on Microbial Genomes to be held on October 27-November 1, 2001, at the Park Vista Hotel (tentative), Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The website for the conference is now available: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/microbial_genomes/ To facilitate broad participation, the U.S. Department of Energy is sponsoring Travel Awards for attendance at the 9th International Conference on Microbial Genomes for students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty members. This award will not cover all costs, and applicants are urged to seek additional funding from their home institutions. Details are available on the web site. This will be the ninth conference in a series of meetings on microbial functional genomics. The Conference on Microbial Genomes originated in 1992 and was last held in Lake Arrowhead, California, 2000. This conference will primarily focus on recent advances in functional genomics, as well as DNA sequencing and sequence comparative analysis. The conference will especially emphasize studies (1) exploring genome sequence information to understand various biological processes through experiments and (2) defining gene functions and regulatory networks. We hope the conference will help in identifying research gaps, problems, challenges, and trends in microbial genomics from the viewpoints of genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, physiology, and ecology. This meeting is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (other sponsors pending), and there will be partial support for attendance for a limited numbers of students, postdoctoral associates, and junior faculty. This program will allow the conference to contribute to the training of the next generation of genomic scientists. This meeting will feature invited talks and contributed posters. Meeting Topics will include: I. Microbial genome diversity, evolution and microbial genome sequencing II. Bioinformatics and microarray-based genomic technologies III. Proteomics, cellular pathways, and regulatory networks IV. Functional genomics of microbial pathogens V. Functional genomics of bioremediation and carbon management VI. Functional genomics of model microorganisms, extremophiles and biofilms VII. Applied functional genomics Organizing Committee: Dr. Jizhong Zhou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chair Dr. Jeffrey H. Miller, University of California at Los Angeles, Co-Chair Dr. George Weinstock, University of Texas Medical School at Houston Dr. Monica Riley, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Dr. Elisabeth Raleigh, New England Biolabs Inc. Dr. Terry Gaasterland, Rockfeller University If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Kim Smith (smithky@ornl.gov) or Dr. Jizhong Zhou (zhouj@ornl.gov). Thank you. Jizhong Zhou for the organizing committee. Joe (Jizhong) Zhou, Ph.D Science Leader for Microbial Genomics and Ecology Group Environmental Sciences Division Building 1505, Room 376 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Tel: 865-576-7544 Fax: 865-576-8646 e-mail: zhouj@ornl.gov http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/genomics/index.html http://www.esd.ornl.gov/people/zhou/zhou.html .